Senior/Staff Aws DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Skylight, a digital consultancy, as a DevOps Engineer supporting the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). You will architect and manage cloud infrastructure, primarily on AWS, ensuring security, compliance, and efficient operations. Responsibilities include designing, configuring, and maintaining AWS resources, implementing security controls, automating processes using CI/CD pipelines, and collaborating with diverse teams. This fully remote position requires robust cloud infrastructure experience, security and monitoring know-how, and strong collaboration skills. Skylight offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Robust cloud infrastructure experience
• Experience architecting solutions in AWS and managing Infrastructure as Code
• Carefully balance performance and cost considerations when making decisions
• Security and monitoring know-how
• Comfortable using AWS tooling to configure infrastructures for monitoring, metrics, alerting, logging, and compliance
• Networking and data migration skills
• Know your way around a VPC and are ready to support a seamless data migration across cloud environments while minimizing downtime
• Collaboration and problem-solving
• Communicate clearly with diverse teams and stakeholders, proactively resolve incidents, and approach challenges with a solution-focused mindset
• Professional services and values
• Thrive in client-facing situations, demonstrate passion for creating better public outcomes, align with our core values, and are willing to travel occasionally if needed
• Public trust clearance
• Ability to obtain and hold a federal public trust (Tier 2)
• Minimal off-hours work
• Some weekend or evening testing and maintenance may be needed to avoid user impact
• U.S. work location
• All work must be performed within the U.S. (excluding territories), and certain federal contracts require U.S. citizenship
• Work authorization
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship
• Background check
• You may be required to successfully complete a company background check
• Federal contract qualifications
• Some roles may require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure
• Design, configure, and maintain AWS resources across several accounts within an organization
• Write your Infrastructure as Code, creating a cloud system designed for availability, reliability, and resiliency
• Optimize resource usage and costs within AWS with appropriate auto-scaling solutions
• Ensure security and compliance
• Implement and enforce access and security controls using AWS services
• Set up and validate backup and recovery processes to keep critical data safe
• Automate and streamline
• Use containerization tools (like Docker) and build a robust CI/CD pipeline (using services like GitHub Actions or AWS Fargate) to enhance efficiency and reliability
• Work with our software engineers to enhance and accelerate their SDLC
• Monitor and troubleshoot
• Track system performance, uptime, and health by building observability into your designs
• Investigate issues quickly and escalate unresolved concerns with AWS support as needed
• Collaborate with teams
• Work closely with NARA staff, stakeholders, and fellow engineers to resolve incidents and continuously improve our services
• Share knowledge, introduce fresh ideas, and contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture
• Document and improve
• Maintain clear, concise documentation for configurations, processes, and troubleshooting steps
• Keep up with AWS updates, propose improvements, and help implement best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Solutions Architect Professional
• Federal systems experience
• Supporting large-scale federal systems or cloud-based records management projects
• Compliance familiarity
• FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, or similar standards
• Multi-cloud experience
• Working with hybrid or multi-cloud environments
• Civic tech background
• Prior involvement in the civic tech space
• Remote teamwork
• Experience collaborating effectively with distributed teams

Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
• Paid time off, including 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and flexible sick leave
• Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
• Business development / sales bonuses
• Referral bonuses
• Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
• Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
• Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
• Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year
• Access up to $1,000 before payday to cover emergency expenses
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good